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“He is working really hard on it all. He reviews a lot at training. We don’t half-hearted walk throughs. We are always full-on.”

Bakewell’s forwards must have impressed their new coach in the 33-18 win over Harlequins at Welford Road last weekend.

Fitzgerald fully played his part in the team’s 100 per cent record in both the scrum and the line-out and the Kiwi knows they will have to return similar numbers if they are to come away from Allianz Park with a win over Saracens on Sunday afternoon.

“We know they are a good side and probably the most clinical team in the competition,” said the 31-year-old.

“We just have to go down there and play our game and make sure we don’t go there and get spooked by the effect of playing Saracens at home.

“We didn’t give away a lot of penalties against Quins and that was a big improvement for us.

“We were good on the gain line and played on top of them and over the advantage line for much of the game.

“We wanted to come away with a bonus point and there were a couple of maul situations that we could have come away with more at but we were pretty happy.

“The win was a boost to our confidence to get that monkey off our backs and it would be a massive win if we can go down and win on Sunday.

“If we can beat Saracens, it really puts us on track points-wise, as well as boosting team morale again.”